Vegas Watch

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

RJ Bell is the founder and CEO of Pregame.com, a sports betting website that includes forums, odds, contests, and picks (both of the free and for purchase varieties). It is one of the most successful sites of its kind, in no small part due to the popularity of Bell, who has accumulated over 80K 100K Twitter followers and established himself as the mainstream media's go-to "expert" for stories involving gambling on sports.An American success story if there every was one. That's only one side of it, though. In somecorners of the internet (including this blog), there is a feeling that Bell has not found his success in a legitimate way. This is the 16th post in a series detailing the reasoning behind that particular feeling. If you'd like to start at the beginning, it's here.
Back in August, we established that:

using "Vegas" as a meaningless buzzword to attribute an undeserving level of importance to the information you're tweeting

...is bad. In this post, I'm going to attempt to expand on that thought by looking at two more subsets of "Vegas Says".